Excerpt from 'Creation' magazine, Vol. 29 No. 1 Morning Glory's Designer Label clothing- By Dr. David Catchpoole B.Ag.Sc(Hons.) Ph.D.
'..When researchers report their studies of animals, plants, Earth and starry skies, they implicitly give the glory to 'evolution'.
A recent genetic study of the 'morning glory' plant, for example, speaks of the 'evolutionary transition' from purple/blue flowers (Ipomoea purpurea) to red flowers (Ipomoea quamoclit).
A closer look though, shows it is not evolution at all. Evolution... requires an uphill change, an increase in genetic information. But the researchers describe how their claimed 'evolutionary transition' from blue to red flowers in morning glory is actually a downhill change; a decrease in information.
The ancestral (normal) blue/purple floral colour is due to pigments derived from a chemical called cyanidin. Researchers discovered that mutations in Ipomoea quamoclit block production of cyanidin. Therefore a different chemical called pelargonidin builds up, resulting in red pigments and flowers. The researchers readily acknowledge this has been a downhill change, using such phrases as 'pathway degeneration' and 'loss of the ability [to perform certain chemical processes]'.
Thus the researchers concluded, starkly: 'This degeneration makes it very unlikely that I. quamoclit would be able to re-evolve cyanidin-based blue/purple pigments ...'. Why? Because, the researchers say, it would require multiple simultaneous mutations. These mutations would have to add information, i.e. it would require an uphill change.
But this is the opposite direction to observed mutations today. ...... The Bible tells us that from studying plants it ought to be obvious that they must have had a Designer (Romans 1:20). How could you ever get something that grows from a seed, extracts its own construction and maintenance materials from its surroundings, all fuelled by solar energy, arising by chance?'
Glyconutrients also have been in existence all along, but only recently discovered by the scientists from Mannatech Inc. The Chairman, Sam Caster, gives time and energy to telling the world the potential great benefits to all mankind from glyconutrients. These saccharides - glyconutrients- are necessary in our bodies, but are missing from our modern diet.
